5-DAY INTENSIVE COURSE
Blueprint Investigative Immersion (5 Days)
Investigations without interviews are blind. Interviews without investigations are baseless.
Overview
Two flagship courses. One unified week. The complete Blueprint Investigative Immersion System — from the first scene walk-through to the final interview close. Taught back-to-back so every technique reinforces the next.
Third Degree Training has spent over two decades working one problem: giving law enforcement and investigators a repeatable, field-tested process for finding the truth — in every case, at every level. Our instructors solve serious crimes at rates in the 70th, 80th, and 90th percentile. They are working professionals who practice what they teach, and bring the hard-won experience that only comes from running real investigations on real cases.
Every department has a solve culture — an informal group of men and women who consistently crack the toughest cases. We studied the best police investigators and the best investigative cultures to understand what those people did right, day in and day out. What we found was a hidden pattern: excellent investigators share a consistent set of habits, disciplines, skillsets and instincts that drive their results. The problem is that no one has ever built a formal training program to capture that process and pass it down to the officers and detectives who need it most. Without one, departments are left with fragmented knowledge, inconsistent expectations, and no shared language across ranks and units.
When cases are easy to solve, that fragmentation is invisible. When the pressure is on, it shows.
The Blueprint Investigative Immersion Course was built to solve that problem at the foundation. One system, one language, one week — and every person on your team walks away with the same framework, the same process, and the same standard.
Investigations without interviews are blind. Interviews without investigations are baseless.
Course 1 — Blueprint Investigations (BIS)
Monday 8:00 AM – Wednesday 12:00 PM · 20 Hours
The Blueprint Investigation System is a simple, seven-step investigative process built for 21st-century policing. It is scalable: simple enough for a patrol officer handling a property crime, and fully capable for investigators working complex fraud, sexual assault, and homicide. Every step of the process is portable — patrol, investigations, dispatch, data, and command all operate from the same framework. When everyone speaks the same investigative language and understands their specific role in moving a case forward, the work one person does builds cleanly on the work of the next.
The real test of a solve culture is not how a team handles one major case — it is how they handle every case. When officers apply the same investigative discipline to a stolen vehicle as they would to a homicide, they build a searchable, connected record that pays dividends for months. By the time the high-stakes case arrives, the culture is already there, because it never turned off.
Course 2 — Blueprint Investigative Interviewing (BII)
Wednesday 1:00 PM – Friday 5:00 PM · 20 Hours
Where proven legacy interview methods meet modern science. This intensive training equips investigators with a complete, field-tested interview system — blending 70 years of best practices with research-backed techniques that measurably increase truth retrieval from witnesses, victims, and high-denial individuals.
We did not start from scratch. We did something harder: we stress-tested legacy techniques against modern interview science and built a single, easy-to-follow continuum with a Close that works. Through real case study analysis of high-stakes interview footage and hands-on practice, students master techniques applicable to any interview environment — from petty theft to fraud, sexual assault, and homicide.
Who Should Attend
This immersion is designed for investigators and professionals at every level — from just out of the academy to 30-year veterans. If you touch a case in any capacity, this course is for you.
Both BIS and BII apply to any interview environment: victims, witnesses, and suspects. All experience levels are welcome and regularly attend together. New officers build the right foundation from day one. Experienced investigators find structure for what they already do intuitively — and pick up tools they didn’t have.
Law Enforcement — Patrol & Investigations
- Patrol officers (First Investigators)
- Detectives and investigators at all experience levels
- Sergeants and supervisors
- Special units: fraud, sex crimes, homicide, property crimes
Command & Administration
- Any command officer in an investigative supervisor position
Government & Agency
- DOJ, state, and federal investigators
- State attorney general office investigators
- Adult protective services
- DA office investigators
- Civilian government investigators
Specialized & Private Sector
- Civilian Fraud unit investigators
- Civilian Insurance industry investigators
Seminar Highlights
Blueprint Investigations (BIS) — Core Techniques
- The Blueprint Investigation framework from first response through case close
- First Investigator mindset — turning patrol into investigative assets from the first call
- Evidence preservation and scene management: what will not exist tomorrow
- Digital evidence strategy: video, GPS, call records, and social media
- Case documentation and chain-of-custody best practices
- Strategic case planning — closing investigative gaps with purpose, not reaction
- Assessment: a clear inventory of what you have, what you need, and what decisions can be made now
- Intro to Search Warrant writing and execution, including special issues for electronic evidence
- Surveillance concepts and counter-surveillance risk and resource assessment
- Caseload prioritization, team-building, and delegation
- 360° Case Assessment: managing pressures and checking investigative bias
- Identifying the four systemic failures that kill solve rates
- Career, ethical, and emotional survival for investigators
- Building and sustaining a departmental solve culture
Blueprint Investigative Interviewing (BII) — Core Techniques
- Your Professional Brand — how credibility is built before word one
- The Rapport Framework: information gathering through modern communication techniques
- Interview structure: introduction, cognitive options, and progression
- Theme development: facilitating admissions through custom themes
- Strategic Use of Evidence (S.U.E.) — the dangers of oversharing and undersharing
- Moving past denials: admissions to confessions for high-denial individuals
- Cognitive Interview methods: maximizing accurate information retrieval
- The Close: Asking for Clarity by Giving Clarity
- 360° Assessment: evaluating your case and your interviews
- Deception indicators — what verbal and non-verbal cues can and cannot tell us
- Pretext phone calls: the underused investigative gift
- Miranda scenarios, privileged communications, and working with translators
- Bullet-proofing interviews: written statements, remorse, reenactments
- Special scenarios: false confessions and defense counsel present
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